Sound crashes on Ubuntu 13.10

[Daniel Iuhasz]

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on my Lenovo IdeaPad U330p and I get random sound crashes. There is no sound what so ever from the speakers and testing sound from the GUI doesn't work even when the normal sound works. The crashes seem to happen after I restart the computer or when I wake it up from standby.

Solving the problem may take more iterations of the following procedures:
1)
sudo alsa reload

or

2)
sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
sudo alsa force-reload

The methods for getting back sound have been taken from here: http://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/
The problem is that this appears to happen randomly when I start my computer, so doing the before-mentioned steps is not really that fun.

Maybe helpful:

1)sudo aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

2) lsb_release -rd

Description: Ubuntu 13.10
Release: 13.10

All the best,
Daniel.

[John Kim (kotux)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We need some more information from you before we can start working on this bug.

Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

If you are using Karmic or later this information can be gathered for you automatically using the command apport-collect -p alsa-base BUGNUMBER where BUGNUMBER is the number of the bug you've reported.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.13 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.
Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.14-rc2-trusty/

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